There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.
I was given a horn at an early age. I never really got a chance to think about doing anything else until I was about 18, when I realized I could do something else if I wanted to. In my teens, I was rolling in it.
Roosevelt got a chance to name an amazing nine justices of the Supreme Court. He was not namby-pamby on this question. He wanted people who shared his views, he wanted liberals, and he wanted lots of them.
Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.
When I went to art school, I was just having fun. I realised that was the last chance I had, and then I would have to get a job.
And even when they refuse to listen, I'll keep talking anyway, hoping on a slim chance that the things inside my head are worth something to someone.
Success is a strategy. Success is planned and also implemented, its never by accident, it's certainly not by chance either (so keep working it! )
One of the best parts of being a Guardian is that we get a chance to grow and change. We get to exist in both worlds. We know the secret of life and have the knowledge of death
When I am not king, then THE Kingdom has its best chance of breaking through.
I was craving a chance at the lifelong fantasy, and I had that. That was a one-off thing. I was looking for an experience, Eric, not wanting to cultivate a habit.
Ab figured that the chance of his recognising it would be about the same as a burglar recognising a dollar watch that happened to get caught for a minute on his vest button five years ago
It is now, at Advent, that I am given the chance to suspend all expectation...and instead to revel in the mystery.
Temptation is not limitation ; when you fail does not mean you cannot win , press forward and keep faith, for one day your chance will come .
When you have a steady and lifelong group of girlfriends, chances are the person you're telling the story to is actually part of the story.
I'll take my chances. It has you." And when a great man says something smart like that a smart woman just shuts up.
Starting from this day, I will create a chance of happiness that doesn't depend on perfect conditions. My options may not be infinite, but my possibilities are endless." -Bliss Aston
He was dazed, the soft thoughts sinking slowly in. A son. Even a daughter. His child. Immortality. A chance to make good. Pass on the hard lessons learned.
A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.
I was just a girl again, but this girl didn’t owe her strength to fate or chance or a grand destiny. I’d been born with my power; the rest I’d earned.
Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?
You don’t want to wake up and realize you could have been happy, that the risks would have been worth it, but you dwindled away your chances.
